Monday, November 19, 2018

It’s true! And in the case of the 85 percent power generated by the methane gas captured from micro-organisms at the Joint Meeting of Union and Essex Counties wastewater treatment plant (nhà máy xử lý chất thải) in Elizabeth, part of the “food” the bugs digest is collected from grease traps at Rutgers University.

Known as FOG (fats, oils and grease), the byproduct is collected by Russell Reid, an industrial waste management company in the Keasbey section of Woodbridge, carted from university dining halls, offloaded at the treatment plant, and served to millions microscopic critters.

Savitsky has told Russian investigators (nhà điều tra) that he saw red and attacked Beloguzov with a kitchen knife when he once again ruined the ending. His colleague is now reportedly in intensive care (điều trị tích cực) in hospital after being treated for a stab wound to the heart (tim).

Savitsky is now back at home in St Petersburg under house arrest (quản thúc tại gia) after being charged with attempted murder. It is believed to the first time that a man has been charged with such a crime on the world’s loneliest continent (lục địa cô đơn nhất thế giới).

Saturday, November 10, 2018

William Friedman, 68, of Newfield, was spotted making his latest drop around 3:15 a.m. Sunday, police said. He was processed and issued multiple township ordinances (sắc lệnh, quy định).

Police could count on Friedman to be regular (bình thường, thông thường).

"He would do it at least three times a week at different intersections (chỗ giao nhau, chỗ cắt ngang)," said Lt. Matthew DeCesari of the Franklin Township Police Department. "He would do it a couple of months in one area and then move to a different intersection. We could never get a time down."

But officer Garrett Moretti thought he recently had detected somewhat of a pattern (khuôn mẫu), so he decided to patrol (tuần tra) the area around routes 47 and 40 early Sunday. That's when he saw the driver of a box truck drop a load of soiled diapers (tã bẩn) in the roadway.

David Prince was walking with his son on Monday when he found the rodent (loài gặm nhấm) clinging to a wooden barrier in peculiar (lạ kỳ, khác thường) fashion.

Looking closer, he was stunned (kinh ngạc, choáng váng, sững sờ) to see the squirrel (con sóc) had somehow managed to wedge (nêm, chèn, lèn) his crown jewels between two planks.

Moving to the other side of the fence (hàng rào), the squirrel can be seen frantically trying to free itself.

...After being taken aback by the strange scene, David tried to free the critter.

'I used a stick to pry his nuts up to the top of the fence,' he said. 'I broke one stick trying and we also tried to pry the fence apart. 'He ran off into the bushes (bụi cây, bụi rậm) and haven't seen him since.'

The bio-brick was produced by students from Cape Town, who collected urine from specially designed male urinals (bô, bình đái, chỗ đi tiểu) at the university’s engineering building and mixed it with sand and bacteria.

Bio-bricks are made in moulds (khuôn) at room temperature (nhiệt độ phòng), removing the need for high temperature kilns. Nitrogen and potassium, which are crucial for commercial fertilisers, are created as by-products during the process.

...Bio-bricks are created through a natural process called microbial carbonate precipitation, said Randall, similar to the way seashells are formed. Loose sand, which has been colonised with bacteria that produces urease, is mixed with the urine. Urease breaks down the urea in the urine, producing calcium carbonate, which cements the sand into shape.

While regular bricks are kiln-fired at temperatures of 1,400C and produce large amounts of carbon dioxide, the bio-bricks do not require heat.

Gilligan, 74, a Doña Ana County resident, told the Sun-News that Charlie and his two other dogs — Scooter and Cowboy — went with him to hunt for jackrabbits (thỏ rừng tai to) in the desert west of Las Cruces on Thursday, Oct. 25.

Gilligan was in the driver's seat of his parked pickup truck, along with the dogs, when he was shot.

"Charlie got his foot in the trigger (cò súng) of the gun and I leaned forward and he slipped off the seat and caught the trigger — and it shot," Gilligan said. "It was a freak accident but it's true, that's what happened."

The shotgun — in the backseat of the pickup, along with Charlie — fired through Gilligan's front driver's seat. The bullet went through Gilligan's back, breaking a few ribs (sườn) and shattering (đập vỡ, làm vỡ tan) his collar bone (xương đòn), and caused other, severe injuries.

Monday, October 15, 2018

...scientists from the University of Yamanashi in Japan decribed their attempts to clone (tái sinh bằng phương pháp vô tính, nhân bản) mice (chuột) from feces (phân). As you can imagine, the process was a little messy.

Lead author Satoshi Kamimura and his colleagues aimed to use nuclear transfer to accomplish the feat. This is the same strategy (chiến lược) previously (trước đây) utilized (được dùng/sử dụng) to clone Dolly the Sheep in 1996, as well as two monkeys earlier this year.

The researchers first attempted to collect cells from the surface of mice droppings (phân). A process of harvesting, centrifuging (ly tâm, phân cách), mixing in solution (dung dịch hòa tan), and centrifuging again yielded what the authors termed "cell-like bodies." Kamimura and his team hoped that most of these were epidermal cells from the mice intestines,...

Sherell Bates tells WSOC-TV she was paying for back-to-school supplies (dụng cụ học tập ngày khai giảng) Friday when a police officer had her step aside and explain what was under her shirt. Bates says she responded that she’s 34 weeks pregnant (mang thai) with a boy and a girl, but he didn’t believe her. So she lifted up her shirt to expose (để lộ, hở) her belly (bụng).

Wednesday, September 5, 2018

A Missouri nun (nữ tu sĩ, ni cô) smuggled (buôn lậu) 2 pounds of cocaine into Australia using her high heels (giầy/guốc cao gót) — but claims she was duped (bịp, lừa) into the act by a man she met online.

Denise Marie Woodrum, 51, was caught arriving into Sydney Airport last August while making her way through customs — when officers discovered the drugs stuffed into the heels of her shoes. But her lawyer, Rebecca Neil, told District Court Judge Penelope Wass last week that the items were meant for a mystery man Woodrum had met online named Hendrik Cornelius.

...After a failed marriage (hôn nhân đổ vỡ) and major health problems that led to crippling (làm tê liệt, làm lụn bại) bills (hóa đơn, chi phí), Woodrum, a sister of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, a religious order based in Kansas, believed she had met someone special online...

Friday, August 3, 2018

The Greek island of Santorini is known for its stunning views, steeps hills, and tradition of using donkeys as the main form of transportation. While most tourists love traveling the island on a donkey, activists are now saying visitors from the U.S. and Europe are too fat to sit on the animals.

...“Locals have even started breeding their donkeys with stronger mules so it is easier for them to carry fatter tourists,”

“It’s recommended that animals should carry no more than 20 percent of their own body weight,” a spokesman for Help the Santorini Donkeys told the Daily Mail. “The obese and overweight tourists, combined with the lack of shade and water as well as the sheer heat and 568 cobbled steps, is what is causing such a problem.”

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Spiders have no wings, but they can take to the air nonetheless. They’ll climb to an exposed point, raise their abdomens (bụng dưới) to the sky, extrude (đẩy ra; chế tạo bằng cách đùn chất dẻo (nhựa, kim loại nóng chảy) qua miệng ống) strands (sợi tơ) of silk, and float away. This behavior is called ballooning. It might carry spiders away from predators (động vật ăn thịt, dã thú; người lợi dụng người khác (nhất là về (tài chính) và tình dục) and competitors (đối thủ), or toward new lands with abundant resources. But whatever the reason for it, it’s clearly an effective means of travel. Spiders have been found two-and-a-half miles up in the air, and 1,000 miles out to sea.

...spiders can sense the Earth’s electric field, and use it to launch themselves into the air.

Every day, around 40,000 thunderstorms (bão có sấm sét và thường mưa to) crackle (kêu răng rắc, kêu lốp bốp) around the world, collectively turning Earth’s atmosphere (khí quyển) into a giant electrical circuit (mạch điện khổng lồ). The upper reaches of the atmosphere have a positive charge, and the planet’s surface has a negative one. Even on sunny days with cloudless skies, the air carries a voltage of around 100 volts for every meter above the ground. In foggy or stormy conditions, that gradient might increase to tens of thousands of volts per meter.

Ballooning spiders operate within this planetary electric field. When their silk leaves their bodies, it typically picks up a negative charge. This repels the similar negative charges on the surfaces on which the spiders sit, creating enough force to lift them into the air. And spiders can increase those forces by climbing onto twigs, leaves, or blades of grass. Plants, being earthed, have the same negative charge as the ground that they grow upon, but they protrude into the positively charged air. This creates substantial electric fields between the air around them and the tips of their leaves and branches—and the spiders ballooning from those tips.

Adam Curlykale, 32, from Kaliningrad in Russia, decided to start tattooing his body, including his eyeballs, with black ink after he was diagnosed with cancer (ung thư) 12 years ago. The 32-year-old, who also has albinism (bạch tạng), says he started tattooing himself because he felt depressed by his pale skin.

And after getting almost 90% of his body covered, Adam felt that his penis (dương vật) ruined his look so he paid to undergo the extreme surgery. He has now shared pictures with his fans on social media after having his penis, nipples (núm vú) and testicles (tinh hoàn) removed.

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

A central New York man got a rude awakening when a large snake fell from his bedroom ceiling and landed on him while he slept.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation says Wednesday that one of its officers responded to a call on June 29 from a man who says a snake had fallen on him while he was sleeping in his apartment in the Oswego County village of Pulaski, which is about 35 miles north of Syracuse.

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

On a BA flight from London to Singapore, there would be roughly 368 litres of fart expelled into the air

Jacob Rosenberg, a clinical professor at the University of Copenhagen, made the discovery after noticing that his stomach (dạ dày) had bloated (phồng lên, sưng lên, phù lên) on a long-haul flight to New Zealand.

After clocking that his empty water bottle had expanded (nở ra, phồng ra) during the flight, then crumpled (bị ép thành nhiều nếp, hoặc vò nhau) when it came back down to earth, he realised that the same could apply to his stomach. He told the BBC: “The pressure drops and the air must expand into more space.” According to Jacob, the gas sitting inside the stomach then expands by 30 per cent… and it needs to go somewhere.

...The average person lets out between 0.5 and 1.5 litres of fart a day according to Kyle Staller, M.D., a gastroenterologist (bác sĩ chuyên khoa dạ dày-ruột) at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Monday, July 2, 2018

Just after midnight (nửa đêm) on May 31, Hayden Caskey, 26, decided to he wanted a pie (bánh nướng, bánh hấp) and attempted to withdraw some cash from an ATM in Hāwera to purchase one, police prosecutor sergeant (trung sĩ) Steve Hickey said.

Caskey was heavily intoxicated (say, say sưa) at the time.

When the ATM "ate" his card and requested he contact the bank, Caskey became enraged (giận điên lên, điên tiết, nổi khùng) and began punching (đấm, thoi) the machine with his fists (nắm đấm). He then smashed (đập vỡ ra từng mảnh) a glass bottle against it.

Caskey completely destroyed the perspex (kính pecpêch) used to house the ATM computer and also damaged the ATM itself, leaving it inoperable (không hoạt động được).